Quotes about Authority
Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.
— Timothy Keller
The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.
— Mike Huckabee
If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.
— NT Wright
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
— CS Lewis
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
— George Washington
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
— Alexander Hamilton
They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
— Joseph Heller
True obedience is true freedom.
— Henry Ward Beecher
People do not make wars; governments do.
— Ronald Reagan
Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.
— Joseph Heller
the man who cannot follow a leader intelligently, cannot become an efficient leader.
— Napoleon Hill
The late President Harry Truman often referred to leaders as people who can get others to do what they don't want to do-and make them like doing it!
— Charles Swindoll